Short ¹

Definition: Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

Short ²

Definition: Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.

Short ³

Definition: Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.

Short ⁴

Definition: Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; usually with of; as, to be short of money.

Short ⁵

Definition: Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

Short ⁶

Definition: Not distant in time; near at hand.

Short ⁷

Definition: Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

Short ⁸

Definition: Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); with of.

Short ⁹

Definition: Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.

Short ¹⁰

Definition: Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.

Short ¹¹

Definition: Brittle.

Short ¹²

Definition: Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.

Short ¹³

Definition: Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation,

Short ¹⁴

Definition: A summary account.

Short ¹⁵

Definition: The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

Short ¹⁶

Definition: Short, inferior hemp.

Short ¹⁷

Definition: Breeches; shortclothes.

Short ¹⁸

Definition: A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

Short ¹⁹

Definition: To shorten.

Short ²⁰

Definition: To fail; to decrease.

short ²¹

Definition: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base

short ²²

Definition: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

short ²³

Definition: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

short ²⁴

Definition: create a short-circuit in

short ²⁵

Definition: cheat someone by not returning him enough money

short ²⁶

Definition: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"

short ²⁷

Definition: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

short ²⁸

Definition: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

short ²⁹

Definition: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"

short ³⁰

Definition: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat'', `pet'', `pit'', `pot'', putt'')

short ³¹

Definition: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"

short ³²

Definition: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"

short ³³

Definition: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"

short ³⁴

Definition: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

short ³⁵

Definition: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

short ³⁶

Definition: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

short ³⁷

Definition: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

short ³⁸

Definition: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

short ³⁹

Definition: containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"

short ⁴⁰

Definition: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

short ⁴¹

Definition: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn''t like it"

short ⁴²

Definition: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"

short ⁴³

Definition: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"

short ⁴⁴

Definition: so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"

short ⁴⁵

Definition: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"

short ⁴⁶

Definition: clean across; "the car''s axle snapped short"

short ⁴⁷

Definition: without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"